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My 3G reception is always 5 bars.

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richard371

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Even in areas where it should be less. I have yet to see it drop to 4. Anyone else notice this?
 
richard371 said:
Even in areas where it should be less. I have yet to see it drop to 4. Anyone else notice this?
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Yeah I noticed that also. I work at a high school and my office is no where near windows. When I had my iphone 3g and 3gs, I never had any bars inside the school. Now I have the ipad in my office and I have 5 bars. ATT must have did some upgrading somewhere. :)
 
thats cause the iphone is a ****** antenna. it was never att and was always apple. also thats why apple wont give the iphone to Verizon cause it was always there own fault.
 
No, it is lying to us. If you turn off your cellular (go into airplane mode) then turn it back on, you'll see the true bars for a split second when it first gets a signal. Then it goes to full 5 bars and stays there... It's a coverup...
 
murphyrulez said:
No, it is lying to us. If you turn off your cellular (go into airplane mode) then turn it back on, you'll see the true bars for a split second when it first gets a signal. Then it goes to full 5 bars and stays there... It's a coverup...
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Or maybe that other is the lie.
 
My 3G bars fluctuates and goes from 5 to 4 and rarely down to 2 bars, but I don't notice much difference in the speed either way. It mostly stays around 5 bars.
 
Mine fluctuates whenever I travel, the worst so far was in the mall with all that concrete and steel the reception went pretty low.
 
I think the iPad just has a great radio and antenna.

In my office at work, my VZW cell phone only gets one bar even if I hold it up by then window. The roof of the building has Copper plating, so the building acts like a giant faraday cage.

My iPad usually has 5 bars. When it is raining, it drops down to 1 or 2, but I always get a connection. Pretty amazing.
 
When I'm in a 10" thick steel vault, 6 stories below the ground, standing next to a human sized magnet, my reception is HORRIBLE. Apple is going to pay for this...
 
richard371 said:
Even in areas where it should be less. I have yet to see it drop to 4. Anyone else notice this?
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If I leave the 3G running when I know I am sitting near a wifi signal, is it draining the battery faster than if I use sbsettings to turn off the 3G?

Or, if I am no where near a wifi, should I turn off wifi?

Thanks!
 
My 3G reception is better on my iPad 3G than my iPhone 3GS. There are more antennas on the iPad I believe. But even my iPhone reception is better than 6 months ago. The network around here has definitely been upgraded.
 
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Those of us who own the 3G/64GB/$829 and the AT&T MicroCell always have 5 bars.

BJ

Sent from my beach house
 
boltjames said:
Those of us who own the 3G/64GB/$829 and the AT&T MicroCell always have 5 bars.

BJ

Sent from my beach house
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I was waiting for you to post in here.. I figured your iPad would always have 6 bars of signal! :rolleyes:
 
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